Zhang Ermiao, a famous painter and collector, is a director of China Youth Foundation and a member of China Folk Artists Association. 199 1 June, Zhang Ermiao China Art Exhibition was held in Beijing Contemporary Art Museum. 1994 1 month, Zhang Ermiao's second solo exhibition was held in Beijing International Art Park. CCTV's "Oriental Time and Space-Son of the East" column and several media introductions.
Chinese name: Zhang Ermiao.
Nationality: China.
Ethnic group: Han nationality
Occupation: painter
Graduate school: Central Academy of Arts and Crafts.
Representative works: The representative works are the Year of the Dog Zodiac stamps, and have won many awards in the National Stamp Product Design Competition since then.
brief introduction
Zhang Ermiao, formerly known as Zhang Zhuo. Famous designer, painter and collector, director of China Youth Foundation, member of China Folk Artists Association, vice president of Macau Painting Academy and academician of China Friendship Association.
199 1 June, Zhang Ermiao China Art Exhibition was held in Beijing Contemporary Art Museum.
1994 1 month, Zhang Ermiao's second solo exhibition was held in Beijing International Art Park.
1994 1 5th, which is also the design and release date of the zodiac stamps for the Year of the Dog, all the remuneration of the design works and the handicraft income of the works are donated to the Youth Development Foundation.
Educated by the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts, his works have participated in various art exhibitions at home and abroad for many times, and have been collected by China Art Museum, China Folk Art Museum, Lu Xun Museum, some foreign art galleries and international friends. CCTV (1 99365438+February1), Radio Beijing, Beijing TV's China Got Talent, China Radio International, People's Daily, Beijing Daily, China Youth Daily, Beijing Youth Daily, Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao, Celebrity Dictionary, etc. Made a special introduction. Taiwan Province Province, the United States and other overseas newspapers and periodicals have special introductions. He has designed stamps and philatelic products for Hong Kong, Cuba, the former Soviet Union, Japan, the United States, Kyrgyzstan and other countries and regions. His masterpiece is the Year of the Dog Zodiac stamp, and he has won many awards in the National Stamp Product Design Competition since then.
1996, Beijing color mastiff advertising company was established. 1999, invited to participate in the design and planning of the 50th anniversary celebration of People's Republic of China (PRC). The souvenirs designed and produced were commended by the National Day Organizing Committee, Beijing Municipal Government and other relevant departments. Invited designer of China International Trade Center. In recent years, he has accepted many invitations from foreign friends and groups to participate in signature activities in Korea, Spain, France and other countries. His philatelic works and paintings have won many awards and have been well received and collected by people from all walks of life.
Artistic consciousness
When the pioneers of avant-garde art grow into the backbone artists who lead the times, it seems that it is time to discipline themselves. The pursuit and exploration of art has exhausted our hard work for half a lifetime, and the development direction of Chinese painting has gradually become clear. First of all, we should learn from foreign art to break the traditional pattern of boring old Chinese painting. First, return to tradition and continue the pure bloodline of Chinese painting. However, we can't arbitrarily put artists in the right position. Every excellent artist has his own coordinates, and then tries to complete his own artistic journey. Undoubtedly, Zhang Ermiao is a special artist who not only keeps watch over China's traditional artistic soul, but also retains the western modern artistic concept.
1994, China Stamp Company issued a zodiac dog ticket, which made Zhang Ermiao a household name. His arrangement and excavation of China folk art played an important role in his later artistic creation, making his creation without any academic stupidity. His creative mentality is directed at the origin of art, and he lives in all his new blood. Regardless of the limitations of methods and materials, he insisted on pursuing his feelings about the things around him. Thereby highlighting his artistic language. His "Women in the Sun Series", "Tang Nv Series" and "Bar Life Series" are all models of his self-pursuit. Although these works differ greatly in form, they are complete and unified in spirit.
Zhang Ermiao's pictures have the rustic color of China folk art, and at the same time, they sparkle with the mottled light and shadow of Western Impressionism. It has Xia Jiaer's dream and Jackson Walker's freedom. But for himself, it is just to open his heart and convey his true artistic feelings. We have evaluated the various appearances of his works before. It is nothing more than an attachment. Zhang Ermiao's sensitivity and preference for color has a long history. He used modern pigments on Xuan paper, showing a brand-new painting charm. The illusion, vague impression and rhythm of light and shadow he pursues are all his deductive process of objective objects. We really can't put his artistic expression in a certain context. Looking back at his early works of "Underwater World Series" and "Miao Girl Series", it is not difficult to understand the germination of Zhang Ermiao's artistic soul. Strange creatures at the bottom of the sea. The colorful expressions and graceful color changes of Miao girls' costumes have become the media for painters to pursue their ideal kingdom. This childish mentality, similar to that of a child, greedily absorbs all artistic nutrients. In any case, Zhang Ermiao did not fix his art on the style of "signature". Easy and cheerful personality. This personality not only made his art, but also contributed to his extensive interpersonal communication. Zhang Ding, Huang Miaozi and other senior artists all praised him. Mr. Huang Yongyu spoke highly of his art, gave a title to Zhang Ermiao's picture album, and gave Zhang Ermiao a full-page monkey ticket with his autograph to show his encouragement.
We can't fully understand Zhang Ermiao's artistic pursuit. He followed his own "stream of consciousness" downstream, leaving only the pleasure that his works brought us.
Song Weiyuan
2006 1 1 4th of the month
In recent years, the change of art has also contributed to the new discovery of traditional art. Many painters have made a lot of explorations in the integration of Chinese and western paintings. They not only use traditional ink painting, but also deal with the proper relationship between light and shade, turning point and image through the color means of western painting, which enhances the depth and three-dimensional sense of ink figure painting, thus achieving the artistic expression of painting. .
Zhang Ermiao began his artistic career in 1980s. At first, he was engaged in drama stage art and film art. The position of film art provides him with a unique opportunity. In Shaanxi, Gansu, Yunnan and other places, he was attracted by folk art full of artistic charm. Specializing in western painting, he changed his artistic path from now on. In order to explore in folk art, he visited various ethnic minority areas all over the country and contacted those simple and lovely villagers to observe their favorite folk art. Understand the free spirit and infinite vitality of folk art. And began to feel different from previous creations by studying eastern and western paintings. Zhang Ermiao's paintings are mostly between abstract and concrete, and painting and decoration are related. In the use of materials and media, ink painting, gouache, acrylic and oil painting are also integrated. His recent works have two main features. One is the figure ink painting without background. He used ink and color on rice paper, and formed different starting and ending boundaries through pen operation and moisture infiltration. The distant historical time and space created in his paintings were skillfully combined with hazy reality. The picture emphasizes the beauty of plain, solemn and antique, and the style is simple and vigorous, which is more decorative. The other has a very specific background, emphasizing color and not the outline of the object. The objects depicted are either elegant Tang Nv and innocent minority girls, or a group of characters transformed from primitive totem paintings, pottery sculptures or clay dolls. This kind of work is more picturesque, varied and colorful than the last one, such as the ever-changing light shining in the dark. Zhang Ermiao's exploration in China traditional painting and ancient folk art pursues the spiritual depth of modern ink painting in the field of modern painting, seeks modernity in the primitive, emphasizes the interest in mystery and strangeness, and is full of free, simple and cheerful atmosphere.
Xue Yongnian
Art world
I wonder how many people have used stamps designed by Zhang Ermiao and how many people collect stamps designed by Zhang Ermiao. This makes many people know that Zhang Ermiao is an excellent stamp designer. However, Zhang Ermiao is still unknown. Walking into Zhang Ermiao's studio, you will see a colorful art world, and you will agree that he is still a unique, innovative and excellent painter. On the cabinets and tables in his studio, there is Jingdezhen for firing. Some people have flowers and birds, which shows the author's unique aesthetic value and creative concept, and makes some old painters and collectors want to shoot. Among his various paintings, there are animal paintings and figure paintings, which are earthy, like vivid clay sculptures. There are figure paintings with the theme of life breath and street culture. Many paintings have been ordered for collection, only temporarily stored in the room for the needs of art exhibitions. I was deeply attracted and moved by his series of bar paintings. He used "abstract figuration" in the modeling of bar series characters and "abstract figuration" in the performance of modeling, organically combining the modeling concepts of the East and the West, so that people's thinking can fully gallop and enjoy with the picture. However, he not only adopted the idea of "replacing ink with color" in color distribution, but also showed the integration of "replacing ink with color", making the whole picture colorful and colorful, which made people relaxed and happy. When some of his paintings are compared with some of Monet's in France, they will be surprised to find that they are the same. I was attracted and had to take the form of "plunder" to enrich my collection.
In today's painting world, where superstars have fallen one after another, there are constantly some new stars rising to the sky. I hope these new stars will become more and more dazzling, so that China painting circle will continue to become a superstar and China painting art will always stand at the top of the world art.
Liu
11.7, 2006, I began to feel something in Shiliuzhai.